Wardrobe-fixture.



J. FORESTER.

WARDROBE FIXTURE. APPLIOATIONIILED JUNE 21,1913.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

' INVENTOR WITNESSES ITTU RNEYS JAMES ronns'rnn, or mrw You H. Y;

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Specification of Letters Patent. Application. filed June 21, 1918. Serial No. 775,025.

To all' whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES Fonns'rnn, a subject. of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Wardr'obe-Fixture, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to hangers ordisplay devices, and has particular reference to means to be applied to the interior of wardrobes for supporting clothing or the like.

By the term wardrobes as used herein I mean to cover any kind of closet for cloth ing or the like.

Among the objects of the invention is to providea means whereby any person of ordinary skill or intelligence. may fit or equip his wardrobe With'any desired number of hangers in a convenient, reliable and neat mannerwithout requiring the services of a mechanic.

A further object of the invention is to provide wardrobe fixtures of a certain standard or type, the same including socket pieces of uniform style which may be secured to the side walls or ceiling and into or from which may be suspended various special types or forms of brackets adapted to hold {ods gr poles of standard form but of any engt The foregoing and many other objects of the invention will hereinafter be. more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the drawings forming a part of this specification in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective. view indicating the appearance of one corner of a wardrobe fitted with my improvement; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of one part of the combination shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on the broken line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig.4 is a plan view of part of the device shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is an end view of one form of fixture pole, showing one form of hook thereon; and Fig. 6 is a' modified form of bracket adapted for the support ofa cylindrical pole. The several parts of the device may be made of any suitable materials and the precise form thereof and their relations to one another may be varied to a large extent without departing from the spirit of the invention hereinafiter more fully set forth and specificaliy claune' d.

AtIO show a preferred form of socket plece, the same adapted to be secured to any vertical wall or to a ceiling. By the term ceiling as used herein I mean to cover the under surface of a wardrobe shelf or thelike. These socket pieces are formed preferably of sheet metal bent into rectangular shape having open ends and attachment flanges 11. The outer .wall of the socket piece also is preferably provided with a slot 12 through which a key or screw 13 may be passed. As illustrated especially in Figs. 1 and 2; I attach a pair of these socket pieces 10' upon the opposing Wails of the Wardrobe preferably at the same height and dis-- tance from. the rear wall and then I cut. a pole. 15 of. such length as: to reach fireely between the sockets of said members, as shown in Fig. 2. The ends of said pole are adapted to be received in the loops 16 of brackets 17, each having a downwardly projecting shank 18 substantially parallel to the plane of its loop 16. In other words, the bracket 17 is substantially U-shapd, one legof which fits against the wall and the other leg of which constitutes the c hop and adapted to receive the pole extending therefrom perpendicularly to, the Wall. After the pair of brackets 17 are put on the ends of the pole 15; the shanks 18- are slipped down ward-1y into the sockets of the socket pieces 10.. Under normal circumstances or. conditions, no specialfastening means arenecesisary to secure the brackets 1n place, and

When. so secured", the pole 15 cannot become displaced in any direction.

At 15* is; shown another pole, preferably of the same form as the one above described and ada ted to be mounted parallel to one of the si ewalls ofthe wardrobe, and in the same. horizontal plane as theone adjacent the rear wall. The same form of socket piece is employed for this purpose as before, but the bracket 17 differs with respect to the position of its loop 16. The loop in this bracket is arranged in a plane perpendicular to the socket piece so as to receive therein the pole which .is arranged parallel to the wall. Any desired number of the brackets 17* may be employed, but for simplicit I may use only one for each side pole 15*, die same to be placed adjacent the front end of the pole. The rear end of the pole 15 Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

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may be supportbd as by means of a 00p 19 havin a shank 20 screwed into the said rear end 0 the pole,

15. The loop 19, as well as the loops 16 and 16, will preferably be made toneatly and yet loosely receive the poles conformin thereto. A finishing cap 21 may be secured to the outer or front end of the side wall poles 15, if desired. In Fi 6 I show another of the many forms w ich the-brackets may 'be'made" to assume within the spirit of this invention.

I This bracket 1'7 has a shank 18 adapted to cooperate with a socketpiece as it would be applied to the ceiling. The loop 16 in this form of bracket extends downwardly, therefore,- from the part to which the shank is connected. This form of the invention is especially useful in connection with ward-.

robes in which the walls: are not adapted to have secured thereto the socket pieces. The

loop 16 is shown as being circular and hence adapted for a difi'erent form of pole. This bracket maybe used in place of bracket 17% When the poles are made oblong in cross. section as'l'prefer them, they are adapted especially for. either form of hook shown in.

Fi I and'5t At22 I show a hook having "ashaped shank 23, the cross piece --ofwhich is adapted to be received in a hori-'- zontalgroove 24 extending along the rear wall orfsurface of the pole. The hook 22, therefore, being of rigid material must be slip ed uponthe pole from one end, and wh' e it is freely movable along the pole, it cannot be removed therefrom without first removing the pole from its inner brackets.

pieces -1O, and for the purpose-of dusting or on the reaii' wall po'leiy two subscribing witnesses.

cleaning the wardrobe the device proves to be of an espIeciall sanitary nature. The hangers,whoo s an poles are all manufactured in a'cheap and reliable manner and of uniform style, the poles being of any desired length when made. An person wishing to install this equipment as but to buy as many brackets and hooks as he'needs and poles of sufiicient length for his purpose.

When the socket pieces have been put in place it is an easy matter for any person to saw the poles to approximately the desired len h, no-sppcial fitting being required.

- aving t us described my invention, I claim-asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent-:-

1.' In a device of the character set forth, the combination of a pair of socket pieces 10, a pole extending loosely directly between said socketpieces and in the same vertical plane thereof, and a pair of U-sha-ped brack- .ets '17 having loops 16 parallel to the socket pieces and adapted to receive and support the ends of said poleadjacent the socket pieces and also having shanks 18 parallel to said loops and-adapted to be received in said socket pieces.

2. The combination of a plurality orsocket pieces arranged in substantially the same horizontal plane, a pole extending between two of said socket pieces, apair of U- shaped brackets supporting the ends of said pole, each of said bracketshaving a loop conforming. to the end of the pole supportedthereby .and also having a shank oppositev the end of the pole and seated in the adjacent socket piece, an auxiliary pole in the same horizontal plane as the first mentioned pole and arranged at an angle thereto, a loop on the first mentioned pole supporting one end of the auxiliary pole, and a bracket sup+ porting the other end of the auxiliary pole and seated. in the third socket piece.-

In testimony whereof I have signed my nametothis specification in the presence of JAMES FORESTER. Witnesses HARRY -GOODMAN,

JOHN. RoBER'rsoN. 

